 process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation it is impossible to succeed, unless " every foot, nay almost every inch in our progress, be " secured by an arch of masonry, before we attempt the " excavation of another....  The Logic of Sir William Hamilton, Bart - Página 57por Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 280 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 páginas
...still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tuniiel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro" cess of tunnelling—of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation it is impossible...of " thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the one case, on the mason-work " in the other; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 páginas
...beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the " process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation it is impossible..." of thinking and the power of excavation are not depend" ent on the word in the one case, on the mason-work in " the other ; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 páginas
...beyond. " Or another illustration : You have all heard of the pro" cess of tunnelling — of tunnelling through a sand-bank. " In this operation it is impossible...of " thinking and the power of excavation are not depen" dent on the word in the one case, on the mason -work "in the other; but without these subsidiaries,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 páginas
...impossible to succeed, unless every foot, nay almost* every inch in our progress, be secured by an arch oi masonry, before we attempt the excavation of another....the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavating are not dependent on the word in the one case, on the mason- work in the other ; oal without... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 páginas
...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that "the highest intellects, like the... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1881 - 372 páginas
...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that " the highest intellects, like the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 722 páginas
...tracees par I'abb6 de Condillac.' — Renan, Etude d'hifitoire religieuse, pn 2 Examination, p. 379. what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries, neither process... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 páginas
...selon les regies tracees par I'abb6 de Condillac.' — Eenan, £tude d'histoire religieuse, p. 1 1 . what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking...and the power of excavation are not dependent on the words in the one case, or the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries, neither process... | |
 | Gabriel Compayré - 1890 - 330 páginas
...for others still beyond. Or another illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible...the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. Admitting that even the mind is capable of certain elementary concepts without the fixation and signature... | |
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